Teaching procedures

Period 1 Reading

Step 1. Warming up

Talk about plants and animals that live under the sea, and then introduce the anecdotes.

Step 2. Reading

Task 1: Ask the students to get the main idea and then discuss and answer the questions listed on p21:

The passage is mainly about how the killer whales helped the whalers catch the huge whales and protected the whalers.

Task 2: Ss read the passage and finish Ex 2 and 3 on page 21.

Task 3: Read the passage once again and then finish the following exercises:

1. ________ killed the whale at last?

A. Old Tom B. The killer whales C. The author D. The whalers

2. After the whale died, the whalers turned the boat around and went home because ________.

A. they know it would float up tomorrow

B. they abandoned it

C. the killer whales would drag it back soon

D. a dead whale is useless

3. The killer whale protected James by ________.

A. fighting the shark

B. killing the shark

C. preventing the shark going closer

D. dragging him back

4. We can learn from the passage that __________.

A. the whalers needn't train the killer whales

B. the whalers may train the killer whales

C. the killer whales lived on other whales

D. the author worked in the whale station for a long time